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- VLADIMIR PUTINRussian Prime Minister, arguing that criticism of Ukraine's treatment of opposition figure Yulia Tymoshenko should not result in European leaders boycotting the Euro 2012 soccer championship, being co-hosted in Ukraine and Poland

- Polish prime minister DONALD TUSKon becoming the first leader to be re-elected since the fall of communism in 1989. Tusk's Civic Platform party took 39.2% of the vote with 99.2% of votes counted Monday

- LUKASZ KAMINSKIpresident of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance; Poland and many of its neighbors in Central and Eastern Europe are now coming to terms with their communist past through government actions and cultural explorations